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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

Need help identifying an FPGA board.

Its a Microsoft board with Altera Stratix v fpga. Any info or specs that anyone could help me with would be appreciated. Im wanting to learn fpga's with this and atemp a personal project with it.than...
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8 years ago

I Unlikely you can re-use the chip. Its a BGA so unless you have the means to remove it without damaging the chip and re-create the solder balls for 1000 pins, it'll pretty useless.

Be prepared for the fact that you've probably bought a lemon.

What are you actually trying to do? This card is designed to move a lot of data around - 16x PCIe, 2x 10G SFP. Not really a card for learning FPGAs with, this is pretty experienced stuff.